Jvaris Mama church, Tbilisi, Orthodox church in Old Town, Georgia

Jvaris Mama is a small brick domed church on Kote Abkhazi Street in Tbilisi's Old Town, measuring 9.25 by 13.15 metres on an east-west axis. Its plan is a domed hall of the cupola-hall type, with the dome resting on the altar corners and projections from the longitudinal walls. Three crosses are worked into the brickwork of each of the four facades, and the twelve-sided drum has twelve narrow windows.

Tradition attributes the church's foundation to King Vakhtang Gorgasali in the 5th century, when it was called Golgotha. It was destroyed by the Mongols in the 14th century and by the Persians in 1795, then rebuilt; the present brick structure dates from the 16th century, with repairs and a west annex added in 1825 by Archimandrite Benedict. Until 1921 it belonged to the Patriarchate of Jerusalem.

The name Jvaris Mama means "Father of the Cross", a title for the head of the Georgian Monastery of the Holy Cross in Jerusalem, to which the church belonged until 1921. Georgian kings endowed it with villages and estates, and its superior sent the income to the Georgian shrines in Jerusalem. The icons of the iconostasis were painted by Davit Khidasheli.

The church stands at 41 Kote Abkhazi Street in the Lower Kala quarter of the Old Town, below the Sioni Cathedral and beside the larger Norashen church, whose mass shades it. The west entrance is reached from the street; the 1825 annex with its bell tower was rebuilt in 1999–2000. The interior is small, so visits are short.

The church stands on Kote Abkhazi Street, and until the 1983 reconstruction of the area it was hemmed in by old houses and shops; a book depository occupied the building for a long time. The surrounding buildings were demolished, the church was fully exposed, and the depository was moved out.